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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3368786" data-attributes="member: 3448">Thanks, HOHB!----“Oh, Alistair,” said Dame Brionna.  “I’m so sorry…”“But… but… they can’t have erased your mother!” said Kit, more out of denial than a real belief.  “Wouldn’t that have caused you to die?”The Eldar shook his head sadly.  “Not if he had taken on a sufficient independent existence.  Erasing someone who saved his life recently could kill him.  But erasing someone whose connection to his being alive was many years ago, with much independent action since… that will only affect his memories and personality.”Alistair breathed heavily as he thought about what had been taken from him.  “Then we need to make sure that we get back the Noldar talisman.”“I’m working on it,” said Kit.  “Don’t worry… we’ll restore your mother.”“And it’s more than just personal.  Dame Brionna, I have several older siblings.  Why is my claim stronger?”“They are older, but their mothers were most unsuitable, whereas your mother… oh.”“Exactly.  By erasing my mother, they both hurt me and also destabilized the succession.  And it’s another way in which I’ve endangered those I care about.”  Alistair gestured at Kit.  “I only hope they didn’t kill her because of me, like they were planning on killing you… but there’s no way to know.”“We all understand the risks we’re taking for you, Alistair,” said Kit stubbornly.  “And we accept them willingly.  It’s worth it.”“I’m not so sure of that.  I never wanted any of you to get hurt… I just couldn’t abandon Canberry.”“No, you couldn’t.  And we can’t abandon you, or Canberry.  It’s not your choice.  It’s ours.”Alistair had nothing to say in response to that.“Is there a limit on range?” asked Dame Brionna.  “Would people further away still remember his grace’s mother?”The Eldar responded.  “There is no limit, per se, but it spreads like a ripple in a pool.  At first the effects are local, then regional, but it continues until the whole pond has rippled.”“So the effects would be worldwide,” said Alistair.“Yes, but it would take months to spread the whole distance.”“We can contact our ambassadors in distant lands, your grace, have them record everything they remember of your mother.”“Until their records fade as way… it’s not just our memories that are affected.”“But perhaps they can find a way to preserve the records.  And it’s only until Kit can recover the artifact.”“It’s worth a try.  We can also try having them write records and move them off plane-- perhaps the effect is limited to the Prime…”  But while Alistair’s words suggested hope, his tone was despondent.[Incidentally, this was one of my favorite reveals in any campaign I've played in.  From the beginning of the game, the DM had only given the vaguest information about Alistair's mother, and I had assumed that that was just a matter of not having worked out (or looked up from other documents where it was written down; the DM has thousands of pages of notes, so ...) the details.  But then when we were discussing this artifact, I had a sudden "wait a minute" moment.  It was pretty emotional and very cool.]</blockquote>

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